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Status beyond what meets the eye

Conveying an impression of competence is important for jobseekers and politicians alike. New work from Oh, Shafir, and Todorov suggests that subtle differences in our clothing shape our impressions of how competent people are. In particular, subtly …

Relevance, valence, and the self-attention network

Consistent with the authors’ suggestions for research on extensions beyond the self (e.g., to joint attention and group-related processes), we offer the hypothesis that the Self-Attention Network may facilitate attention to any person who is …